Posted on 01/13/2012 10:31:42 AM PST by RnMomof7
A German Catholic priest has admitted 280 counts of sexual abuse involving three boys over almost a decade, the BBC reported. About 2,800 pornographic images -- including several of his victims -- were found on the priest's computer.
Named only as Andreas L, the priest, 46, told a court in Braunschweig he did not think he was doing harm.
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Of course, had this priest been a PRESBYTERIAN minister, he could have “celebrated” his relationships with the boys openly.
Muncie pastor’s molestation trial begins
Updated: Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012, 7:36 AM EST
Published : Tuesday, 10 Jan 2012, 7:36 AM EST
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - A Central Indiana pastor is facing trial on charges alleging that he sexually abuse three teenage boys who were members of his congregation.
The Star Press reports that a Delaware Circuit Court jury seated Monday was scheduled to begin hearing testimony Tuesday in the case against 55-year-old Matthew A. Kidd.
The pastor of Freedom Point Apostolic Church faces charges of child molesting, sexual misconduct with a minor and vicarious sexual gratification. He’s accused of fondling the three teens, who are brothers, by having them disrobe before giving them massages and performing what he says were exams for ailments such as hernias.
Kidd has denied the allegations, which are also the basis of a lawsuit filed by the alleged victims and their family against Kidd and his Muncie church.
I wonder why RnMomof7 has no apparent concern for Protestant kids who are abused and raped by their pastors?
Former youth pastor, teacher charged with molestation
By Bob Allen
Monday, January 09, 2012
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ALABASTER, Ala. (ABP) – Residents of a Birmingham suburb expressed shock at sexual abuse charges filed against a popular school teacher who faced similar allegations, but avoided arrest, 20 years ago while he was youth minister at a Baptist church.
Police in Alabaster, Ala., arrested Daniel Montague Acker Jr., 49, Jan. 4 and charged him with three counts of first-degree child sexual abuse. A fourth charge involving a second victim was added Jan. 6.
Police said Acker admitted to molesting at least 21 female students during his 25-year tenure as a teacher at three public schools.
According to the Shelby County Reporter, Acker was accused of child abuse in 1992, but a grand jury did not indict him. At the time he was serving as a youth pastor at Alabaster’s Westwood Baptist Church.
First Baptist Church of Pelham, Ala., allowed Acker’s family to hold a spaghetti supper at the church as a fund raiser after the 1992 allegations.
“In hindsight, I wish they would have found somewhere else to have it,” First Baptist Pastor Mike Shaw told the newspaper. Shaw apologized “for allowing an event to be held in our facility which provided support for someone who used his position to prey on innocent children.”
Springfield pastor’s wife jailed for alleged sex with foster son
A Springfield woman remains jailed after being arrested last week for allegedly having sexual intercourse with her 16-year-old foster son in Washington Park.
Gwanda K. Tribbet, 47, of the 100 block of North MacArthur Boulevard is charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse and criminal sexual assault. Her bond is set at $250,000.
More child sex charges filed against ‘traveling pastor’
Another accuser has come forward against man, who is jailed on child sex abuse charges.
By Patrick George
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Published: 7:44 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011
A “traveling pastor” who was charged with sexual crimes against children this year has been charged again after another accuser came forward, according to court documents.
Francisco Antonio Hernandez, 53, was charged last week with indecency with a child by contact, a second-degree felony, according to an arrest affidavit filed Tuesday with Travis County courts . In October, Hernandez was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child by sexual contact.
Police have said that Hernandez, also known as Pastor Javier, traveled to private homes in the Austin area to hold services for a nondenominational church that had no name.
The latest charge against Hernandez comes from a woman who told police in July that Hernandez sexually abused her when she was 7 years old, the affidavit said.
Judge says former pastor is a flight risk
A Superior Court judge has ruled that a former Fairbanks pastor is too great a flight risk to remain out on bail while he appeals a seven-year sentence on sex-abuse charges.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: 12/31/11 11:40 pm
FAIRBANKS — A Superior Court judge has ruled that a former Fairbanks pastor is too great a flight risk to remain out on bail while he appeals a seven-year sentence on sex-abuse charges.
Shawn Justice, the 33-year-old former pastor, met the victim when he was the pastor at Corinthian Baptist Church, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports.
Second Victim Claims Sexual Abuse by Former Youth Pastor
A second victim is accusing a former youth pastor and little league coach of sexual molestation stemming from incidents that occurred several years ago in Gwinnett County.
By Sharon Swanepoel Email the author December 23, 2011
Again, post-Vatican II.
Secular humanism opened the door to this sort of behavior.
ON THE OTHER HAND:
Priest cleared of sexual assault allegations, six years later, still struggling to shed stigma
Published: Tuesday, January 03, 2012, 7:15 AM
By Erin Duffy/The Times
HAMILTON — In 2005, as the Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis continued to grab headlines all over America, even the St. Raphael-Holy Angels parish was not immune to scandal.
And hey, don’t get me started on those rascally Mormons! /s
(I sometimes think everybody but Calvinists are engaged in some kind of hanky-panky somewhere).
>> Again, post-Vatican II. Secular humanism opened the door to this sort of behavior. <<
Nonsense.
* Most of the “victims” of the Spanish Inquisition were Catholic priests who were accused of sexually abusive relations.
* Why was Luther so convinced that celibacy was a wicked demand? He believed that sexual continence was utterly impossible, asserting that priests committed “unspeakable acts” with younger seminarians. (And, yes, consider for a moment, how long it was before Luther was himself married. Was he not sexually chaste during his very prolonged bachelorhood? He was 41 years old.)
* The very first post-biblical ecumenical council, first Nicene, felt it necessary to clarify that priests whose indiscretion causes “grave scandal” to children must be removed from office. (This is another reason that the American bishops were so derelict.) “Scandal,” here, refers to sinning in such a notorious way as to prevent the salvation of another person.
>> Again, post-Vatican II. Secular humanism opened the door to this sort of behavior. <<
... which is not to say that I don’t concur that the liberalism which followed Vatican II did not inflame the problems of the sexually dysfunctional within the Church. Prior to Vatican II, a priest who avoids the sacrament of confession or who invalidly confects the eucharist would immediately attract negative attention from his bishop. After Vatican II, such deviances were more often viewed as merely stylistic, not indicative of grave dogmatic difficulties.
And then they demand the right and privilege of being the only ones to *properly* interpret said Bible when they don't even follow it themselves?
right......
1 Corinthians 5 1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13 God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
*charges* not conviction or admission.
Where are the Catholics screaming about false accusations and how it can ruin a man’s life, like they do when it’s a Catholic priest being accused?
*charges* not conviction or admission.
Where are the Catholics screaming about false accusations and how it can ruin a man’s (or woman’s) life, like they do when it’s a Catholic priest being accused?
Arrested eh?
What a novel concept.
And the pastor apologized for it.
Another novel concept.
“Will this ever end?”
NO, human beings will continue to sin until Jesus returns...whether they be Catholic, evangelical, agnostic, whatever...
We ALL need to pray for holiness for all of our brothers and sisters...and especially for those who claim to be religious leaders, etc.
AND, we need to be sure that we are all seeking that personal holiness to which God calls us.
In this decades-long tidal wave of homo-abuse, virtually none of assailants or enablers have been traditional Catholics. The scandal is entirely the result of infiltration and usurpation of Church office by liberal and neocon heretics.
Once Catholic Tradition is restored, the problem will be over.
*charges* not conviction or admission.
Where are the Catholics screaming about false accusations and how it can ruin a man’s life, like they do when it’s a Catholic priest being accused?
Well, it certainly does not excuse the Catholic priests who did horrible things, nor the derelict Catholic bishops who allowed it to persist, nor the millions of Catholic parishioners, infected with Protestantism, who thought it was so cool that there pastors don't get caught up in silly matters like using noble substances for transubstantiation, or maintaining the sacred air within the sanctuary.
But since the Catholic church, unlike Protestant churches, does not rely on the personal interpretation of the bible of its ministers, the Catholic doctrine, though poorly proclaimed as of late, remains unblemished by the despicable acts of its ministers.
But why is your concern only with the Catholic church? I responded to a single, though terrible, abuse case from a faraway land with numerous cases happening right here in America, by Protestant ministers. Yet your only concern remains not with the complete inaction by various Protestant denominations, such as the SBC and various Presbyterian denominations, but solely with the actions of faraway Catholic priests. How very strange.
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